skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
I'm going to ignore your guns tangent for lack of relevance.

> don't know how to reconcile

Easy. Polls are easy to slant, people will say things they believe, but not necessarily will act on, most people don't know what "freedom of speech" means, and the results of a poll may be open to multiple even conflicting interpretations. Place little faith in polls. Certainly place less faith in polls than in actions - and there are plenty of actions which show how Americans don't "cherish" free speech in a notably meaningful way.

"we've failed to pass along the free speech tradition to younger generations."

You have yet to show that there is a notable free speech tradition beyond judicial interpretations of the First Amendment. Interpretations which have changed over time depending on who's in the Supreme Court.

Again, how did all of those anti-free-speech laws and attitudes I mentioned get passed if that tradition was once cherished so highly?

I'll add to my previous examples - why was swearing in public illegal in a culture which cherishes free speech?

As https://dictionary.findlaw.com/definition/obscene.html points out, "Material or expression deemed obscene by the court is not protected by the free speech guarantee of the First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution." Which historically has prevented not just swearing and pornography but also materials on birth control from being sent in the mail. As I pointed out.

> think the government should be able to prevent people from making statements

Go back to the 1950s, deep into the Jim Crow era, and back when you seem to think there was a golden era of faith in free speech.

Now, walk around Mississippi holding a sign which says "Equality for blacks" on one side and "Repeal miscegenation laws" on the back. Bonus points if you're Black.

Do you think your free speech rights would have been upheld for long by the law or by the people?

Those Silent Generation Americans were brought up in the Jim Crow era when state-mandated racism was everywhere, and in a horribly racist culture which treated that racism as the societal norm and aspiration. Just how many of those Silent Generation Americans object to that statement not because of their differing views of free speech but because they still believe that racism isn't that big of a deal?

Maybe Millennials think extreme racial bigotry should be included in the same obscene language exception of the American free speech tradition that Silent Generation Americans did for other topics?
You can actually buy the call back whenever as long as someone is selling (which market makers generally are) to exit the position - you don't have to wait until expiration.
Deeply insightful. HN has some white supremacists participating here from time to time. Now we know a lot about you and the people you hang out with... right?
A $1000 ticket to punch a 0.1% right in the balls is a worthy trade for many. People donate to political parties just to fuck the other party.
How do you know what people are thinking?
C'mon, read the guidelines, linked at the bottom of every page. "Casual dismissal" is right there.
A Peek into the Future of Distros
ask , and you are an idiot for five minutes.

do not ask, and stay an idiot for ever.
Why is it hard to believe? 2,500 pounds is enough for a camper trailer.
Confluent Cloud Integration with Azure is now generally available
Rooting Bosch lcn2kai Headunit for a car infotainment system
Thanks! Will do. :)
Yes this is real. We all like to think asking questions doesn't make you look stupid but the reality is, it does. That's why most humans (men especially) have an inborn fear of asking questions... it's actually an evolved trait. Think about it, you have this fear regardless of what kind of person your mentor is...

All these little hang ups that humans have like biases and jealousy exist because they helped us survive natural selection. Ever wonder why evolution hasn't already put in place the behavioral idealisms we strive for? Possibly because that type of behavior didn't actually help us survive.

You are a petty person who lacks self control and is too cowardly to ask questions because in certain ways these qualities can actually be good for you.

It goes even further then this, because there's a huge possibility that asking too many questions IS actually a good metric for how stupid you are. If evolution evolved in you a fear of asking questions, it may be that this was an evolutionary response to another evolved trait of people accurately judging intelligence by measuring the amount of questions someone asks!

Is there any data correlating IQ and amount of questions asked? I would like to know.
Thanks for reading! He's far and away my favorite author, and I'm happy so many people on here love his writing as much as I do.

(And I agree with people's comments that how much of a utopia it really is is up for debate, especially if you don't agree with Banks's views on economics & society. But to me his own personal intent was very clear.)
Amen. Zeitgeist today can't bear the idea that technology could bring about any positive change.

Just check out what they did to Star Trek. 'To boldly go.. vs there is no hope (paraphrased by me.)'
This reminds me of what happened when TwitchPlaysPokemon took off and all the lore about Bird Jesus, etc just cropped up spontaneously.
I've read 9 out of the 10 culture books relatively recently and I don't remember even a hint of that idea ever coming up in any of them.

The most common concept of mind "creation" documented are GSVs physically constructing them and their first ship body. In some places it hints on a sort of ironic/humourous child/parent relationship.
> GNU bash is the most popular shell implementation in the world. It was first released in 1989, and implements the POSIX standard plus many extensions. It's the default shell on most Linux distributions, runs on BSD Unix variants, used to ship on Mac OS X, and runs on Windows.

Note that macOS still ships bash.
In data science, types change all the times. E.g. when dealing with tabular data, the columns (which might be used as type parameters) change frequently. In Julia, for example, see DataFrames.jl vs. TypedTables.jl for some trade-offs.

In general, type annotations are useful if you know the business requirements beforehand. Data science is exploratory, where type annotations can be a form of premature abstraction. Languages with traits (e.g. Scala) might be a decent compromise.
Is there any part of the Linux system that systemd hasn't penetrated yet? It controls boot, processes, authentication, time, dns, proxies, etc. The GNOME Foundation unilaterally required all distros adopt Systemd ten years ago without any community support. Yocto makes it exceedingly hard to create embedded devices that don't have Systemd, so it's probably lurking on all your IoT devices.
I made no attack in my comment and I don't appreciate the insinuation.

> People should be allowed to say

Well, you're not going to find disagreement on that area from me; everyone is, or should be, indeed allowed to say anything. As I understood it, you were arguing otherwise.

> We are allowed to say [...] even if we don't have the exact step by step plan on how to implement it that we can share on HN.

And other people are similarly allowed to argue with you on anything you might say if they so choose. That's the point of a free exchange of ideas, I think.

> And sacrificing my privacy doesn't have to mean that it's open to public

But... Something is either public or it's private....

Anyhow, not only you suggested that I was attacking you for no reason, but you also brought up "wars" and "hunger" and I don't particularly understand why, and this now seems like an attempt at equivocation. Hopefully I'm just misinterpreting, but I don't feel like you are trying to argue in good faith.
What variant of `doas` do people run as an alternative? I see Duncaen/OpenDoas, slicer69/doas, multiplexd/doas on GitHub. None seem super widely used as judged by watches/stars/forks.
CastlevaniaBot
Haha, this is a hilarious diss of programming.
I mean.... isn't this true for hardware too?

Razors today looks very different from the ones when it was invented. Same goes for vacuum cleaners, cars, tools for construction/manual task, the list goes on.

The only notable difference is that each iteration of hardware have a vividly clear version start/end date compared to the rolling versioning of software. First vacuum cleaner was invented 1908...
At this point, can somebody recommend linux security best practices on desktop? I already have two user accounts one for important stuff and other for unimportant stuff. I prefer to use sandboxed apps, but flatpaks don't look well maintained compared to official repositories, and often unofficial. Firejail seems quite controversial due to use of UserNS? What do veterans in security recommend for sandboxing of user apps?
I think the author realized something important. There's the bash as a CLI users and bash as a scripting language users. I'm firmly in camp one and I think it's an important difference to realize.

I don't want my CLI to be a REPL for a scripting language. It's something I really disliked about PowerShell when I tried it. It just felt like a dotnet scripting language and not like a CLI.

If Oil provides a scripting interface with structured types etc. I'm all for it. I just don't want to have to deal with it when using the shell interactively. I love it when writing scripts and programs, but not for interactive shell use.
curious. pls pardon the ignorance. why don't these sites work on Firefox ?
Is there a link to a list of the style rules their checker tests for?

I've always felt automated checks + fixes for grammar and style are miles behind where they should be by now. Checking over and over e.g. long emails for problems before you send them is super time consuming, and that's not even considering help with tone and the overall message.
A lot of this fear is because the uninviting style of some peers/managers.

Ideally, good engineers are made, not born.

This means everyone, but managers and leadership in particular, need to be willing to help foster a good learning environment.
Notice that I added "for a car infotainment system" to the original title because I don't think "lcn2kai" would give enough context for readers.
that's nice.
also, do you run PiHole on that Raspberry Pi 400 ?
re: "are you reinventing perl" Oil feels much more like TCL to me than it does perl.
Here, "random assignment" means randomly assigning half the participants to each of two bins, I think.
Happens to me a lot too and Im kinda used to it.
I'm guessing that biometric data is sensitive, since it cannot be changed. You can change your name and address, but your biometric data will follow you for the rest of your life.
Many people has wondered over the years what happened with the team at Microsoft that ** up Skype. It must now be clear that they all moved to Google to continue their work there.
I lived a few miles away from him in Scotland for most of my life. He regularly attended book signings and I always thought “I’ll go next time...”

There was no next time. Just a reminder - sometimes the time do do what you’ve been planning is now
Also, user needs are evolving constantly (or are identified in an iterative cycle) and code is structurally not very good at changing constantly.
I think there is at least one or two platforms to rate and review articles after they are published. But I can't find them. Does anyone remember their names ?
A viewpoint that complex systems that need to be modeled into code can all be reduced to a formal (mathematical) construct of a programming type system.

I contend that the majority of complex software systems are not transformative processes that can be so easily modeled. This majority is not problems in the computer or data sciences, or those of computing infrastructure or services.

Modeling for example, a complex payroll system or large airline reservation system, cannot be effectively represented that way. Enterprises tried doing so for a decade of “structured analysis” i.e. a dataflow approach. Were no lessons learned from that?
You are only describing a small part.

Here's another example. You are using a library and call a function that expects a List[Foo] as argument. Now you check in the same library if there is a function that returns a List[Foo] or at least a Foo. So you find it and are good.

Without types, now you have to read the documentation which is much much slower than having your IDE help you out. And yeah, sometimes variable names and function names are sufficient, but in my experience they are very often not.

Also, what happens when you update your library to the next version and it changed what it expects and returns? Now you either have a typechecker that checks _all_ the code, even the one you haven't written... or you have to do it yourself. For each version. And each library.
Agreed! I think the general principle of doing UNIXy stuff is "use the capabilities of processes and the filesystem your units of abstraction". It comes out quite nicely sometimes. Another example is SLURM, where processes are used as context managers for keeping track of allocations.
You have to realize that sometimes, your work environment is just not good for asking questions. I've had the same experience in recent years. My whole career I haven't been shy to ask questions, until I started working at a certain client where a certain developer would react negatively when I'd ask questions. But that's just one particular case.
What do you mean by profitable? You seem to be using the definition of cash-flow-positive, or something like that.

Taking a loan, or investment, does not suddenly make a company unprofitable, that would be a silly way of looking at the world.

I don't have any figures for SpaceX, but I suspect the amount of cash they've be able to raise relates directly to the expected future value of the company. That they're able to launch 60 satellites at once for a fraction of the cost of other launch companies probably helps.

Part of the reason I asked what you meant by profitable is that you seem to be conflating operating and capital expenses.

From the perspective of the 'launch-arm' of SpaceX, launch costs are operational expenses and profitability analysis will typically balance that against payment for the service provided.

From the perspective of the 'starlink-arm' of SpaceX, launch costs are capital expenses and should be accounted for by depreciating the cost over the life of the asset (the satellites).

If you want to look at the profitability across the entire business then you have to be very specific about what you're measuring, and clear what you mean when you say profitable - at least if you want your analysis to be useful.
Emacs org mode if we are talking removing bloat
The magic of conversation
I’m very much against people being fired for their social media posts (unless we’re crossing way over a line that delves into calls for violence or is doing something illegal), but that situation was a bit more complicated. That author, who was PR professional and verified on Twitter, was using her account and her blue-checkmark to shame a worker on a train for eating on her break. She literally tried to get that employee fired and put their face all over the internet. So forgive me if I don’t weep for someone being snitched on on social media when they were snitching themselves and using their position (brands and places like the transit authority take complaints from people with blue checks much more seriously and blue checks absolutely know this) to try to get someone fired for daring to break a rule of eating on a train. Come on now. Her losing her book contract with a publisher no one has ever heard of seems almost fitting.

ETA: Since then, she’s also been able to leverage that experience into redemption/victimhood profiles on Good Morning America and an article in Elle UK. Both opportunities I guarantee she never would have had with her debut novel, so she’s fine.
We control a mixture of loads, but for Fast Frequency Response (FFR), it's mainly compressor/ motors, with the occassional mains breaker thrown in. Large cement factories, refrigeration companies etc.

As for how we control them so quickly, it's usually via a direct connection to a breaker of some description, or where there's a SCADA system that can trip out the loads in the required time frames. Before the site can participate in these services, we perform extensive testing to ensure they meet the required time constraints.

Our system monitors the grid voltage and current at 8 kHz, and we down sample that to 50 Hz (average grid frequency). We can detect a frequency event across 3 phases within 60 milliseconds. (We check all three phases for multiple cycles to reduce any false positives.)

When we trip out the loads, production stops. We'll notify the client why their loads have been turned off, but the SMS message will usually arrive a few seconds after the trip.

The clients that participate in these services get paid quite well to make their loads available and they're aware of the process. They agree to turn off demand without notice when there's a frequency event.

It's not suitable for every site. We work quite a lot with pharma companies for "regular" demand response, but very few can do FFR. Shutting down a pharma plant with no notice can cost a lot of money in wasted product and down time as they clear the wasted product off the production lines.
I think the ones above are much more general than 'publish or perish'.
Are you thinking of PubPeer?
https://pubpeer.com/

Which I recommend the browser extension for. It provides a banner at the top of the page anytime the site displays a paper with PubPeer comments on it.
https://addons.mozilla.org/en-US/firefox/addon/pubpeer/

Plenty of comments when you visit this thread's site. :)
I mean, for a good long while it was a pretty easy argument to claim that Bezos was the head of a RAMJAC: a megacorp with no apparent profit motive, and a secret mission to build a state owned economy (https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RAMJAC).
Just wanted to mention https://github.com/nushell/nushell which seems to be doing some very cool stuff.
I think Paras Parmar's comment on that page is spot on.
The WTFPL is "recognized" in the sense that several Linux distributions ship software released under it. I don't think it has been "recognized" in boring legal terms by any of the organisations that we normally trust to do such things (FSF or OSI). Apparently Bradley Kuhn of the FSF made an unofficial remark that it's a free software license (and I would agree), but clearly being a free license in spirit and philosophy is not the same as being recognized in a legal context. Have any of the paranoid companies like Google and Microsoft used WTFPL software for anything? I wouldn't recommend using WTFPL unless the point is specifically to make life harder for corporations (which I think is a totally valid thing to do).
>Javascript is one of the, if not the, most influential technologies of the past 100 years.

That's... one hell of a claim.
the world needs useful idiots.
Gentoo Linux Setup Script
writing a gentoo script, now sharing it here as some things where not easy to find / figure, maybe a help elsewhere ... :)

eventually this works out now to end up with a neat desktop without interruptions during setup.

sample instr for optional deployment as VM guest in the readme ..

https://github.com/alphaaurigae/gentoo_unattented-setup
Apropos of nothing, my "The Culture Novels, Ranked":

1. Excession

2. Player of Games

3. The Hydrogen Sonata

4. Matter

5. Surface Detail

6. Look to Windward

7. Consider Phlebas

8. Inversions

9. Hitting myself with a hammer

10. Use of Weapons
The better question is what percentage of Parler users fit the stereotype?

Based on what I've seen and people I know who were active on Gab and Parler I would venture to say it's not nearly as high as people think. The amount of people with truly fringe beliefs is pretty small, even when concentrated.
When I joined the current team/project at work I felt the same way. It was a pretty big project and I wasn’t familiar with the structure and some of the tech. I did ask a bunch of questions, but I always felt weird about it.

Now that I’ve been part of the team for a while, and we gained some more new people I’ve been very keen on making clear that they’re always welcome to ask. Seems to be working!
It is possible to think an individual should have certain rights without thinking they should act on them.
> There's no point continuing this argument so let's just leave it here.

Yeah cause you're insufferable.
Reason I use fish is purely for OOTB shell defaults that are nice. I wouldnt script for Fish though its not a standard shell on most OS.
A Rookie in Python but Loving It
Is this satire? The fact that you even specify that you "do not ask for passwords" for social media accounts of potential hires, is sketchy as fuck.
I'm sorry for the desperate people that go along with this shit.
A huge percentage of content on Gab is based around religion. If that's where your religious community is (and most people can't see others in person for worship at the moment) then yes, it absolutely is a religious activity.
uh...really? i think this is much too difficult to assume it would happen in the first 2 years after open sourcing, much less the first day
Pump and dumps have been illegal for decades
"It's a free country" doesn't really add much to the discussion. No-one is saying her employees should be legally forced to stay with the company.

What is being said, however, is that we should reverse this spiralling cultural trend of thinking it's OK to rail-road/strong-arm those not on your "side".

It's a base, mob instinct that has caused riots, factionalism, witch hunts and genocide all throughout human history. It's arguably responsible for a lot of the damage in US society in recent years

I mean, her employees quit because she posted on Twitter that a business was being looted and someone should call the police (I believe, the original tweet seems to have been deleted). Resigning over something so innocuous surely points to a disturbingly reductionist world view, and that path leads only to violence.
What if the language is “shell”-ish? Reading the piece, the idea of shell as a REPL seemed attractive.
The Culture is post-scarcity. Every single inhabitant is far, far, far richer in absolute terms than Musk or Bezos. There is no logical inconsistency in a capitalist wanting to be a trillion times richer than they are today.

Worrying about relative wealth over absolute wealth is a trap for those with limited imagnations.
tptacek may have a conception of what people are thinking which doesn't match what they currently think.
I feel like I'm the only tech guy who doesn't like these novels. I've tried a few times since so many people I respect like them.

But it's a utopia. Everyone has everything they want and nothing can go wrong. That's like the context these novels start up in ... and I ... just can't get into it.

I imagine stuff must actually eventually happen, but I never get that far.
Hard to bear that idea when we got where we are now because of technology. Just a few days ago there was an article in here about our species wiping out the insects population, we wouldn’t have been “capable” of doing that without our technological advances.
As a senior dev, I only ask that a simple google, confluence or stackoverflow search be attempted first. Otherwise, ask away. Honestly, when you’re not looking, I’m probably going to stackoverflow. Actually, I don’t even hide it anymore...